Story highlights The women came in asking to report a crime, then began stabbing officers, police sayNo group has yet claimed responsibility for the attackMombasa, Kenya (CNN) Three veiled women were killed by Kenyan police after they launched an attack Sunday on a police station in the port city of Mombasa, a local commander said. A petrol bomb was thrown and officers were stabbed in the attack on Mombasa's Central Police Station, which Mombasa county police commander Patterson Maelo described as a terrorist incident. The attack began when the women, their faces covered with buibui, a black shawl worn by many Muslim women in east Africa, entered the police station complaining their phones had been stolen, Maelo said. One of the women then threw a petrol bomb, while the other two stabbed police officers. Three police officers were injured, he said.

Source: CNN September 11, 2016 12:33 UTC